> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

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I think there's quite a few Cubans who would disagree with your assessment.

It must be compared with other caribean small poor post-colonial countries. Against that, they're obviously better off. One can only wonder what would be of it without the sanctions. This is not to claim their system is good or etc, what really pisses me off is that most examples we use, of people starving, of poverty, of misery, etc, in a "ideological-enemy" is proof that they suck, while we are full of it in our "other side" societies, slums, crime, misery, what this leads us to is that, actually, all those other suffering are irrelevant unless they serve as pretext for some political interest, in other words they're nothing. And let's face it, there's much more post-colonial people in capitalist societies living in hell than else, there's just more people.

US is propping up a war with Venezuela right now because of "humanitarian blablabla" at the same time there's children starving because of the Yemen's war the US is a sponsor.

There's absolutely no morals in geopolitics. If you hear about it, be confident it's bullshit. Sad but true.

If people in a free and open vote want to choose communism as the basis for their economic system, as Europeans had the opportunity to do with various Eurocommunist parties, that's fine. But a system imposed by one party without accountability or the opportunity to push for change is a system that doesn't work. As others have noted, the rafts are heading in just one direction as was the traffic over the wall in Berlin.

One study that notes that it may be very flawed about one topic doesn't prove anything relative to:

"Yet people continue to argue how communism doesn't work"

The your scale and what this news story says are just totally on different planets.

Also, the soviet union got to space faster. Capitalism is good enough until it creates too much waste and uses all resources. The only reason capitalism is still "nice" is that the continuous growth has not been stopped yet. However, we live on a planet with limited resources and capitalism will hit a wall soon enough. I'm not in favor of communism and gulags, but definitely free healthcare, education, true effort by government to solve climate change and wealth redistribution.